V4 VORs and DMEs

[coastalguy]

I have been using ver 3+ for a decade, which allowed me to build databases on both X-Plane and MS Flight Simulator. For some reason, X-Plane never provided the VORs on the map, but MS Flight Simulator did.

I have now installed the V4, on which again I was able to build the data for X-Plane, but again which does not provide the VORs and DMEs on the map. Again, to get these, I actually purchased the latest version of MS Flight Simulator to be able to again build the database from it. However, entering the executable on FS, does not perform a build. When I try to enter the config file, there is no scenery config file scenery.cfg. Apparently they have changed the name of their config file, which I cannot get to display when I try to enter this path in the data build window for Flight Simulator config. First, why doesn't the latest X-Plane provide the VORs and DMEs from that data build, and if I do need FS, how can I get this to build a data file, when it does not recognize the scenery.cfg file???

[coastalguy]

A correction on my post, I was trying to build a database on FSX, where I actually have MSFS, 2020. On this change, it did build a database. However, regardless of whether the MSFS or X-Plane database is checked, there is still no VORs or DMEs displayed. Also, I forgot on my prior request, first right clicking on an airport, no longer provides the options for starting, landing or most of the options available on V3, in addition the info window no longer shows the airport information when moving the mouse over an airport. Going back to V3 until someone can advise new instructions on V4 that I may be missing....

[tim arnot]

You have VORs enabled on the Map ribbon?
X-Plane definitely has VORs and NDBs, and they should show up in Plan-G (approx 20,000 VOR/DME/ILS and 4200 NDBs, just looking at my database)

You can check whether the VORs are present in the database by going to the Find VOR dialog - you should see a scrollable list of them. If there are none there, then something must have gone wrong building the database. I'd need to see the Plan-Gv4_Log.txt file covering a database build to diagnose it.

MSFS/FS2020 does not use an FSX-style scenery.cfg file. The only path you may need to enter is to your main Content folder (this is the path you specify when you install or update MSFS). Plan-G should still find it automatically though. Again, if you're having trouble building an MSFS database, please attach a log containing the attempted build, and we can see what is happening.

Further, since you added a comment while I was typing:
All the menu options from v3 are still in v4, I can't think of any reason why they would not display - other than the database being incomplete for some reason - we'd still need to figure out why, so we still need to see the logs.

[coastalguy]

Not sure why, but when I opened the V4 today, all of the VORs and DMEs, along with the info and planners were displayed and working. This is the case when I have the X-Plane data selected, but they do not appear with the MSFS data selected for some reason. As I use X-Plane mostly, this now works for me. Obviously I needn't have purchased the MSFS program.